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David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries Anne Jerslev 9783030739232
RRP: $138.99SciFier: $129.26This book distinguishes itself from earlier books on David Lynch by taking in-depth consideration of his entire oeuvre. Besides his films and the Twin Peaks series, David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries... -
David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries Anne Jerslev 9783030739263
RRP: $138.99SciFier: $86.17This book distinguishes itself from earlier books on David Lynch by taking in-depth consideration of his entire oeuvre. Besides his films and the Twin Peaks series, David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries... -
Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives Oliver Double 9783030973506
SciFier: $132.12Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and... -
The Red Letter at the Music Hall by David Huxley
SciFier: $65.32This book reprints and analyses reviews of music hall acts from the family magazine The Red Letter, which was published by the Scottish based firm D C Thomson from 1899 to 1987. The articles under... -
Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives Oliver Double 9783030973537
SciFier: $129.26Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and... -
Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices Kim Knowles 9783030443115
RRP: $34.74SciFier: $23.96This book assesses the contemporary status of photochemical film practice against a backdrop of technological transition and obsolescence. It argues for the continued relevance of material engagement... -
Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices Kim Knowles 9783030443085
RRP: $125.09SciFier: $58.37This book assesses the contemporary status of photochemical film practice against a backdrop of technological transition and obsolescence. It argues for the continued relevance of material engagement... -
The Maiden Voyage of Petrus van Stijn: A Novel Michael Charles Tobias 9783030976828
RRP: $34.74SciFier: $28.80Petrus van Stijn's world is besieged by two prime engines of destruction: massive geomagnetic storms caused by unprecedented solar storms - protracted coronal mass ejections (CME), and climate change... -
Synthetic Cinema by Wheeler Winston Dixon
RRP: $69.49SciFier: $65.32In this book, Wheeler Winston Dixon argues that 21st-century mainstream filmmaking is increasingly and troublingly dominated by "synthetic cinema." He details how movies over the last two decades... -
Silent Renoir by Colin Davis
SciFier: $79.22Jean Renoir (1894-1979) is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished directors in the history of world cinema. In the 1930s he directed a string of films which stretched the formal,... -
The Maiden Voyage of Petrus van Stijn: A Novel Michael Charles Tobias 9783030976859
RRP: $34.74SciFier: $21.50Petrus van Stijn's world is besieged by two prime engines of destruction: massive geomagnetic storms caused by unprecedented solar storms - protracted coronal mass ejections (CME), and climate change... -
Cinematic Virtual Reality by Kath Dooley
RRP: $83.39SciFier: $79.22With reference to traditional film theory and frameworks drawn from fields such as screenwriting studies and anthropology, this book explores the challenges and opportunities for both practitioners... -
Zizek through Hitchcock by Laurence Simmons
RRP: $152.89SciFier: $100.76Maverick Slovenian cultural theorist, philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek has made his name elaborating the complexities of psychoanalytic and Marxist theory through the exotic use of examples... -
Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity Richard Wallace 9783030085544
SciFier: $65.32This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction. It examines the ways in which mockumentary films and television... -
The Modernist Screenplay by Alexandra Ksenofontova
SciFier: $115.36The Modernist Screenplay explores the film screenplay as a genre of modernist literature. It connects the history of screenwriting for silent film to the history of literary modernism in France,... -
Script Development: Critical Approaches, Creative Practices, International Perspectives Craig Batty 9783030487157
SciFier: $143.77This book offers the first international look at how script development is theorised and practiced. Drawing on interviews, case studies, discourse analysis, creative practices and industry... -
Terrence Malick's Unseeing Cinema by James Batcho
SciFier: $157.06This unique study opens up a new dimension of Terrence Malick's cinema - its expressions of unseeing and hearing. 'Unseeing' is Malick's means of transcending the moment in order to enter the life... -
Script Development: Critical Approaches, Creative Practices, International Perspectives Craig Batty 9783030487126
SciFier: $145.91This book offers the first international look at how script development is theorised and practiced. Drawing on interviews, case studies, discourse analysis, creative practices and industry... -
Comics as Communication: A Functional Approach Paul Fisher Davies 9783030297213
RRP: $138.99SciFier: $129.26This book explores how comics function to make meanings in the manner of a language. It outlines a framework for describing the resources and practices of comics creation and readership, using an... -
Video Games and Comedy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030883379
SciFier: $157.06Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games. This pioneering book collects chapters from a diverse group of scholars, covering a wide... -
Comics as Communication: A Functional Approach Paul Fisher Davies 9783030297244
RRP: $138.99SciFier: $129.26This book explores how comics function to make meanings in the manner of a language. It outlines a framework for describing the resources and practices of comics creation and readership, using an... -
Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages: Structural Features and Verbal Humor Devices Anna T. Litovkina 9783030890612
SciFier: $132.12This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs. Proverbs are by no means fossilized texts but are adaptable to... -
Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages: Structural Features and Verbal Humor Devices Anna T. Litovkina 9783030890643
SciFier: $132.12This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs. Proverbs are by no means fossilized texts but are adaptable to... -
Finding the Personal Voice in Filmmaking by Erik Knudsen
SciFier: $80.15This book philosophically and creatively examines ways in which independent filmmakers may explore, through practice, the discovery and development of a personal voice in the making of their films... -
Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe & Wise Stephen Hamrick 9783030339609
SciFier: $65.32Contextualizing the duo's work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th... -
Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood: The Rise of the Cine-fille Mary Harrod 9783030709938
RRP: $152.89SciFier: $143.16Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there... -
Spanish Graphic Narratives: Recent Developments in Sequential Art Collin McKinney 9783030568191
SciFier: $157.06Spanish Graphic Narratives examines the most recent thematic and critical developments in Spanish sequential art, with essays focusing on comics published in Spain since 2007. Considering Spain's... -
Steven Spielberg's Style by Stealth James Mairata 9783030098681
RRP: $152.89SciFier: $100.76This book reveals how Spielberg utilises stylistic strategies that are both unique and innovative when considered within the context of the classical Hollywood system. James Mairata identifies two... -
Video Games and Comedy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030883409
SciFier: $157.06Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games. This pioneering book collects chapters from a diverse group of scholars, covering a wide... -
The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy Patrice A. Oppliger 9783030372132
RRP: $138.99SciFier: $129.26This book focuses on the "dark side" of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin Williams. Contributors, those who study humor as well as those who... -
Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood: The Rise of the Cine-fille Mary Harrod 9783030709969
RRP: $152.89SciFier: $100.76Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there... -
Spanish Graphic Narratives: Recent Developments in Sequential Art Collin McKinney 9783030568221
SciFier: $157.06Spanish Graphic Narratives examines the most recent thematic and critical developments in Spanish sequential art, with essays focusing on comics published in Spain since 2007. Considering Spain's... -
Memory and Intermediality in Artists' Moving Image Sarah Durcan 9783030473952
RRP: $125.09SciFier: $58.37This book addresses the preoccupation with memory in contemporary artists' moving image installations. It situates artists' moving image in relation to the transformations of digitalization as hybrid... -
Justice in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh by Eamonn Jordan
SciFier: $73.46This book interrogates the various manifestations of rival systems of justice in the plays and films of Martin McDonagh, in analysis informed by the critical writings of Michael J. Sandel, Steven... -
Transgressing Death in Japanese Popular Culture by Miguel Cesar
SciFier: $79.23This book focuses on the theme of the transgression of life and death boundaries through its representation in Japanese contemporary visual media, more specifically in the manga Fullmetal Alchemist,... -
Graphic Novels as Pedagogy in Social Studies: How to Draw Citizenship Angelo J. Letizia 9783030442545
RRP: $152.89SciFier: $143.16This book examines the study of citizenship by means of reading and creating graphic novels and comics in the social studies classroom. The author argues that utilizing graphic novels in the... -
Graphic Novels as Pedagogy in Social Studies: How to Draw Citizenship Angelo J. Letizia 9783030442514
RRP: $152.89SciFier: $143.16This book examines the study of citizenship by means of reading and creating graphic novels and comics in the social studies classroom. The author argues that utilizing graphic novels in the... -
The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy Patrice A. Oppliger 9783030372163
RRP: $138.99SciFier: $129.26This book focuses on the "dark side" of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin Williams. Contributors, those who study humor as well as those who... -
Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri by Victoria Brittain
SciFier: $79.22This book covers Mai Masri's three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history. Her films, unique for giving agency to her subjects, tell much about the untold,... -
Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe & Wise Stephen Hamrick 9783030339579
SciFier: $95.20Contextualizing the duo's work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th...